Re: [tied] Re: h1,h2,h3 in Albanian

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42588
Date: 2005-12-21

altamix wrote:

> From the root you mean here I expect in Rum. a "*breaz-" and the word
> exists as such. This is an adjectiv but it is considered to be a loan
> from Bulgarian "breaz".

You must have misunderstood something. The Albanian word comes from the
PIE _word_ *bHr.h1g^ó-, not from "*bHérH1g^-". The regular development
of interconsonantal *-r.H- in Albanian is into -ar-, so the PAlb. form
was *bar3-, exactly what you need to account for the shape of its
Romanian relative.

Piotr